Losing it

I've put in a couple of five-milers in recent days after having not done any running for about a week and a half. I had battled the worst cold I'd had in about four or five years and didn't want it to get worse, so stayed off the roads. Now, of course, I'm paying for it. It is disheartening to lose so much conditioning so fast. Fortunately, the conditioning does come back after a while. It's just not that much fun making that happen.